The PCAT is scored oddly, only a few points off and your percentile takes the express lane going south.
I'm a current 4th year Pharmacy student at LIU and I'll let you in on the "REAL" requirements to be accepted into the program.
Don't look at the requirements you see on the LIU website or PharmCAS, they don't mean anything if there are people "better" or "worse" than you. Remember that the pharmacy program is competitive. Acceptance depends on how many competitive applicants there are.
I've had really close encounters with the "higher ups" of the department so I'd know bits and pieces of the story. So first of all, I'm one of the people who got "lucky" because the PCAT scores of my batch didn't count, but we set the standards for the following years. According to the Dean on a recent conversation, a common acceptable PCAT percentile (yeah that's right, percentile) is a 55% and up. Now you may think "hey that's really low" but come on, not everyone can get an easy 80%. For transfer students the requirements would be be MUCH higher. I'd STRONGLY recommend that you do really well on the January exam.
Your GPA is competitive and you're an LIU pre-pharmacy student. You have all the priority in the world to be accepted. 1 out of 3 pre-pharmacy students get into the program. There are 200 seats, 150 reserved for pre-pharmacy students and 50 for transfers. 4000 applicants each year, 300 get interviewed, only 200 are accepted. I say you stand a really good chance of being accepted if you improve on the PCAT. GPA is always priority for the pharmacy department.
I'm not trying to be cocky or anything, in fact I'm probably part of the "lesser" half of the people who got accepted for my batch. For your GPA, they look at your cumulative, science, and math GPA individually. Respectively I had a 3.5, 3.2, 2.6 (had KNIGHT for calculus), and my PCAT percentiles for chemistry, math, and biology were 16, 75, 88 respectively. Now I'm in the program and am doing quite well (haven't had anything below a B so far).
